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November 15, 1985 • Vol. 16 NO. 46 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Georgetown law students say
'give every group the same'
by Rick Handing
Students at the Georgetown University
Law Center, voting in a Student Bar
Association referendum this week,
overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to
discrimination against Gays and Lesbians.
Sixty-four percent of the law students
who voted approved the resolution, which
opposed "efforts by the university
administration to deny any student group,
on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation;
religion or political beliefs, the benefits
allowed to all other student groups."
Of the 791 students .who voted, 505
voted for and 242 voted agpinst the
resolution. There were also 44 abstentions
recorded.
Although some students criticized the
wording of the resolution, saying the sexual
orientation issue was clouded because other
categkas„,-Nf:,_ djscrimination were also
mentims, ^nd Gay Association
President it-66, --.^ks a "clear
Ine4saorwaS ntO.te?",
administration.
• "There was no doubt that the question
was sexual orientation," Keyes said, adding
that he thought the SBA decision to out the
orientation question in context was proper
because singling it out would indicate that
sexual orientation discrimination is
somehow different from other forms of
discrimination.
Keyes had said before the Tuesday and
Wednesday voting that he was not in favor
of putting the question before the students
because there was "little purpose in it" and
that it would have little impact on the
university's administration
Jim Rosenfeld, president of the
Georgetown Student Bar Association's
governing body, the House of Delegates,
Said it was "important" to show the
administration that "so many students
opposed discrimination" against Gays and
Lesbians.
The voter turnout was approximately 29
percent of the Law Center's 2,683 registered
student—a turnout Rosenfeld said was
relatively high.
The university has been under fire both in
and out of court for not _allowing Gay
groups equal arcPss to school facilities.
Keyes said that the "discrimination" makes
it "difficult for the Gay groups to function"
and causes Gay students at Georgetown to
be "stigmatized" and branded "second-rtass
citizens." But the Jesuit university's officials
maintain that to grant equal access to
facilities would constitute "endorsement" of
homosexual activity, which goes against
Catholic religious principles.
The SBA sponsored a forum on the
referendum question Monday night, which
_included speeches by Keyes and Warren
Martin, who said he represented e'
recognizing the Gay groups. At the torinn,
Martin said that he and those he represents
are concerned foremost with "protecting the
religious integrity of Georgetown."
Continued on page 8
Hair raising funds for Clinic
The local Action To Stop AIDS Project (ASAP) raised over S1,000 for the
proposed Ray Engebretsen House at a Hair Cut-A-Thon last Sunday. Over 20
lists from salons in the Washington area gathered at Scanners Academy in
noithwest Washington and cut hair for four hours. All proceeds go to the Whitman-
Walker Clinic's Engebretsen House for people with AIDS in need of shelter.
Gabriel Clark and Dennis Loftis, organizers of the event, said the benefit was so
successful that another will be planned prior to the Faster holidays.
—Doug Hinclde
Former governor called 'moderate'
HHS Secretary nominee gets first nod
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Gay rights leaders in Washington and
Indiana expressed cautious optimism this
week over President Reagan's nomination
of former Indiana Governor Otis R. Bowen
to be the new Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
Bowen, 67, a physician and professor at
Indiana University Medical School, served
two terms as Indiana's Republican governor
from 1973 to 1981. His nomination to the
HHS post was announced by Reagan
November 7 at a White House press
briefing.
The search
for help, the
scramble
• for
hope
by Peg Byron
Last year it was Paris. This year,
Mexico. Such destinations, once
synonymous with jet-setters and exotic
vacations have lately been memas for the
desperate in search of some treatment to
cure or head-off acquired immune
deficiency syndrome. No one knows
how many Americans have sought.
treatment with the French anti-viral drug
HPA-23, or how many have traveled to
Tijuana for ribavirin, another anti-viral
drug, and isoprinosine, a drug alleged to
strengthen immune function. But stories
abound, and physicians with patients
who have AIDS or AIDS-related
complex (ARC) say the competition to
get enrolled in domestic trials with such
drugs is fierce. And it is getting more
intense, as experts increasingly point out
that the best time for treatment is early
on, before a patient even exhibits
symptoms of AIDS.
"A lot of researchers feel—and I
agree—that it may be too lateby the time
someone has full-blown AIDS to have
any effect with a substance that would
inhibit the virus or promote the immune
system," said Dr. Peter Hawley, medical
director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
So far, nearly all domestic AIDS drug
trials have treated exclusively people
who have AIDS as defined by the federal
Centers for Disease Control. This
approach is bitterly criticized by some
researchers and physicians as self-defeating
because, they say, it withholds
treatment, albeit experimental, from the
people with the greatest chance of
benefiting from it.
"The time to do therapy is when there
is still some immune system left [in the
patient],- according to New York
physician Barry Gingell. Frustrated
the plodding pace of the Food and Drug
Continued on page 10
Kathleen Sarris, director of Justice, a
state-wide Gay rights organization in
Indiana, called Bowen "compassionate"
and "well-qualified" and said she believes
he would be sympathetic to the Gay
community's concerns over the AIDS
epidemic.
Sarris and Stanley Berg, publisher of The
Works, an Indianapolis-based Gay
newsmagazine, said Bowen has never taken
a public position on Gay rights, but has
developed a reputation as a progressive
Republican in a state known for its
conservative and sometimes intolerant
views on homosexuality.
Sarris said Bowen appointed more blacks
and women to state positions than any
previous governor. She said he also
supported family planning issues, including
educational programs to promote
contraceptive techniques to prevent
unwanted pregnancies.
"We were surprised and pleased the
president chose him," said Sarris. "The
Continued on page 7
`F,arly Frost' ranks No. 1 5
Lesbians take 'the test' 6
AIDS insurance bill is in 8
City proposes AIDS budget 9
'Next Wave' dance 119

November 15, 1985 • Vol. 16 NO. 46 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Georgetown law students say
'give every group the same'
by Rick Handing
Students at the Georgetown University
Law Center, voting in a Student Bar
Association referendum this week,
overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to
discrimination against Gays and Lesbians.
Sixty-four percent of the law students
who voted approved the resolution, which
opposed "efforts by the university
administration to deny any student group,
on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation;
religion or political beliefs, the benefits
allowed to all other student groups."
Of the 791 students .who voted, 505
voted for and 242 voted agpinst the
resolution. There were also 44 abstentions
recorded.
Although some students criticized the
wording of the resolution, saying the sexual
orientation issue was clouded because other
categkas„,-Nf:,_ djscrimination were also
mentims, ^nd Gay Association
President it-66, --.^ks a "clear
Ine4saorwaS ntO.te?",
administration.
• "There was no doubt that the question
was sexual orientation," Keyes said, adding
that he thought the SBA decision to out the
orientation question in context was proper
because singling it out would indicate that
sexual orientation discrimination is
somehow different from other forms of
discrimination.
Keyes had said before the Tuesday and
Wednesday voting that he was not in favor
of putting the question before the students
because there was "little purpose in it" and
that it would have little impact on the
university's administration
Jim Rosenfeld, president of the
Georgetown Student Bar Association's
governing body, the House of Delegates,
Said it was "important" to show the
administration that "so many students
opposed discrimination" against Gays and
Lesbians.
The voter turnout was approximately 29
percent of the Law Center's 2,683 registered
student—a turnout Rosenfeld said was
relatively high.
The university has been under fire both in
and out of court for not _allowing Gay
groups equal arcPss to school facilities.
Keyes said that the "discrimination" makes
it "difficult for the Gay groups to function"
and causes Gay students at Georgetown to
be "stigmatized" and branded "second-rtass
citizens." But the Jesuit university's officials
maintain that to grant equal access to
facilities would constitute "endorsement" of
homosexual activity, which goes against
Catholic religious principles.
The SBA sponsored a forum on the
referendum question Monday night, which
_included speeches by Keyes and Warren
Martin, who said he represented e'
recognizing the Gay groups. At the torinn,
Martin said that he and those he represents
are concerned foremost with "protecting the
religious integrity of Georgetown."
Continued on page 8
Hair raising funds for Clinic
The local Action To Stop AIDS Project (ASAP) raised over S1,000 for the
proposed Ray Engebretsen House at a Hair Cut-A-Thon last Sunday. Over 20
lists from salons in the Washington area gathered at Scanners Academy in
noithwest Washington and cut hair for four hours. All proceeds go to the Whitman-
Walker Clinic's Engebretsen House for people with AIDS in need of shelter.
Gabriel Clark and Dennis Loftis, organizers of the event, said the benefit was so
successful that another will be planned prior to the Faster holidays.
—Doug Hinclde
Former governor called 'moderate'
HHS Secretary nominee gets first nod
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Gay rights leaders in Washington and
Indiana expressed cautious optimism this
week over President Reagan's nomination
of former Indiana Governor Otis R. Bowen
to be the new Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
Bowen, 67, a physician and professor at
Indiana University Medical School, served
two terms as Indiana's Republican governor
from 1973 to 1981. His nomination to the
HHS post was announced by Reagan
November 7 at a White House press
briefing.
The search
for help, the
scramble
• for
hope
by Peg Byron
Last year it was Paris. This year,
Mexico. Such destinations, once
synonymous with jet-setters and exotic
vacations have lately been memas for the
desperate in search of some treatment to
cure or head-off acquired immune
deficiency syndrome. No one knows
how many Americans have sought.
treatment with the French anti-viral drug
HPA-23, or how many have traveled to
Tijuana for ribavirin, another anti-viral
drug, and isoprinosine, a drug alleged to
strengthen immune function. But stories
abound, and physicians with patients
who have AIDS or AIDS-related
complex (ARC) say the competition to
get enrolled in domestic trials with such
drugs is fierce. And it is getting more
intense, as experts increasingly point out
that the best time for treatment is early
on, before a patient even exhibits
symptoms of AIDS.
"A lot of researchers feel—and I
agree—that it may be too lateby the time
someone has full-blown AIDS to have
any effect with a substance that would
inhibit the virus or promote the immune
system," said Dr. Peter Hawley, medical
director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic.
So far, nearly all domestic AIDS drug
trials have treated exclusively people
who have AIDS as defined by the federal
Centers for Disease Control. This
approach is bitterly criticized by some
researchers and physicians as self-defeating
because, they say, it withholds
treatment, albeit experimental, from the
people with the greatest chance of
benefiting from it.
"The time to do therapy is when there
is still some immune system left [in the
patient],- according to New York
physician Barry Gingell. Frustrated
the plodding pace of the Food and Drug
Continued on page 10
Kathleen Sarris, director of Justice, a
state-wide Gay rights organization in
Indiana, called Bowen "compassionate"
and "well-qualified" and said she believes
he would be sympathetic to the Gay
community's concerns over the AIDS
epidemic.
Sarris and Stanley Berg, publisher of The
Works, an Indianapolis-based Gay
newsmagazine, said Bowen has never taken
a public position on Gay rights, but has
developed a reputation as a progressive
Republican in a state known for its
conservative and sometimes intolerant
views on homosexuality.
Sarris said Bowen appointed more blacks
and women to state positions than any
previous governor. She said he also
supported family planning issues, including
educational programs to promote
contraceptive techniques to prevent
unwanted pregnancies.
"We were surprised and pleased the
president chose him," said Sarris. "The
Continued on page 7
`F,arly Frost' ranks No. 1 5
Lesbians take 'the test' 6
AIDS insurance bill is in 8
City proposes AIDS budget 9
'Next Wave' dance 119